Smiling Dolphin Leaping Up Out of the Water

A single cartoon dolphin arcs through the air with its head at the upper left and its tail flukes at the lower right. It has a friendly open smile with a small visible mouth, one round eye with a little eyebrow line above it, and a long rounded snout. You can see a triangular dorsal fin on its back, two flippers on the front of the body, and a wide forked tail at the bottom. There is no background, so the whole page is plain white space around the dolphin. The outlines are clean and the body sections are large, which makes this easy for younger kids to color. Try shading the back darker gray-blue and leaving the belly pale, then let kids point out each fin and name its job as they color it. This free printable also works well for an ocean animal unit.